Outgoing French President Francois Hollande made an emotional final foreign trip on Tuesday to Berlin, ahead of the transfer of power to his successor Emmanuel Macron next week.
Chancellor Angela Merkel greeted him warmly at the entrance of the Chancellery before a one-on-one conversation and dinner in the city, sealing an unlikely friendship struck up between a German conservative and a French socialist. While they came from “very different political families,” Merkel said earlier on Tuesday, “I enjoyed working with Francois Hollande,” with whom she “built up mutual trust” over his five years in office.
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Source: Daily News & Analysis
